Rogier Holtermans

Rogier Holtermans

Assistant Professor of Real Estate Finance - University of Guelph


Rogier Holtermans is an Assistant Professor of Real Estate Finance at the College of Business and Economics at the University of Guelph. Prior to becoming a faculty member with the real estate group at Guelph he was a Postdoctoral Scholar – Research Associate at the University of Southern California Lusk Center for Real Estate. His research interests include the financial implications of information asymmetry and sustainability in real estate markets. His research papers have been published in Energy Policy, Journal of Economic Geography and Real Estate Economics, and he regularly presents his findings at academic conferences, most notably the Allied Social Sciences Association meetings, the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association meetings, and the Financial Management Association meetings. Moreover, Rogier received the Real Estate Research Institute's 2017 dissertation research award.

Rogier holds a Bachelor and Master in International Business and a PhD in Finance from Maastricht University, the Netherlands. As a teacher, he taught courses on Corporate and Venture Finance, Real Estate Finance, and Real Estate Investment and Valuation, and supervised students' master theses. In addition to his personal research, Rogier was involved in the management and acquisition of two projects for the European Commission and multiple research projects in cooperation with Bentall Kennedy, CBRE, and Measurabl. During the doctoral program he held visiting researcher positions at: the U.S. Green Building Council in Washington, DC; the MIT Center for Real Estate in Cambridge, MA; and the Lusk Center for Real Estate at the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, CA.

Rogier is a research affiliate of the European Center for Corporate Engagement, the European Property Research Institute, and a member of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association and Financial Management Association.